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I actually kinda liked it, but...


A few things:

- how did the "authorities" as well as Dr Mendez, know it was only English so quickly? If Pontypool is a small town where (I assume) day to day business is conducted in English (I know parts of Canada are bilingual, but it appeared this town was mostly English speaking), the only thing the authorities would see is people acting inexplicably violently and babbling. It would take some time to confirm that not only is it certain words causing it, but only English words, as opposed to same strange new organic brain disease manifesting itself or a toxin in the water or something.

- Dr. Mendez said "it's obviously a virus". Yeah, that isn't obvious at all. Not how viruses work. They don't spread by words. Something new going on here.

- the movie several times referred to the French speaking provincial police sealing off the town. Is the Ontario Provincial Police all French speaking? Or do they have some kind of French Speaking Go Team ready to kick Anglo ass at a moment's notice?

- the scene where they read who died and who killed whom. While a cool scene, how would they have known that?

- the final scene post credits scene lost me. Some people have posted theories about it that work. But struck me as too Tarantino rip off and too big a tonal shift.

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- the movie several times referred to the French speaking provincial police sealing off the town. Is the Ontario Provincial Police all French speaking? Or do they have some kind of French Speaking Go Team ready to kick Anglo ass at a moment's notice?

lol, I agree with all points but this one was the funniest

also, that last scene is when they zombies have overrun the church, so they jacked into the Matrix to escape this reality

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- Dr. Mendez said "it's obviously a virus". Yeah, that isn't obvious at all. Not how viruses work. They don't spread by words. Something new going on here.


Words like "virus" are often used to describe things that behave similarly to a virus, even if it isn't a literal virus(such as a computer virus).

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